Mariah A Rodriquez
Professor Kegley
CSUB 1009/1019
September 8, 2017
What it Means to be Educated:
There is a famous quote by Miles Kingston that states, "knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." Often people use the words Knowledge, Wisdom, and Education interchangeably. However, this is far from appropriate. Currently, being an educated individual does not necessarily mean that that individual is wise or knowledgeable but simply that he or she has had an "education" and therefore carries a level of status and qualification.
The first and most often misunderstood argument is that an education does not guarantee wisdom or knowledge. To understand this, we must first examine what is wisdom. Merriam Webster defines wisdom as "the soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, and good judgment." In order to be wise, one must be able to apply a combination of these things to real life situations. Although an education often provides information to students in which they may use in order to become knowledgeable, as I will further discuss, the education system has been highly criticized for creating a system where students merely memorize information in order to reach certain academic requirements as opposed to retaining this information. Because of this, it has been widely accepted that many educated students are not in fact, knowledgeable. In addition to that, the education system is not
The misconception that occurs between education and knowledge isn’t rare. Many say that knowledge is knowing many things, but education is understanding many things. One can simply memorize the material, know it, and then receive a one hundred on a test. Whereas an educated person will learn the material to where they understand it and can use what they learned in everyday life. By learning the material and understanding it, that material will be carried on throughout one’s life. This is because when one understands something instead of memorizing it, they will have a long-term memory of that
What does it mean to be truly educated? Currently, education is based on grade point averages, standardized tests, and the length of completed courses. These are not incorrect ways to measure education through books and lectures, however, these methods do not measure common sense, life experience, or any other knowledge outside of what is taught through a formal mean. I believe that knowledge is best summarized through life experience and how each person absorbs it. Examples of this can be deduced into three age groups: birth – 13, 14 – 40, and 41 – death.
The term ‘education’ can mean many things. An education is the collective knowledge a person has, but what does an education mean? Although an education can be paid for, no one can physically give you an education, so it is not a gift. There are societal situations where an education is a necessity, but not many globally. Education is a tool to be utilized differently in every part of the world. Knowledge is power, but some knowledge is more powerful depending on your region. If you are part a primitive tribe in New Guinea, a person that is considered to be educated may be illiterate. Whereas in America, an illiterate person would have trouble functioning at all in society. Education is a tool that is to be
Education is a powerful thing. There’s thousands of articles about education, how it’s being teached and how it should be changed. A problem with education is that students don’t know how to have self-generated thoughts. “Being a Self-Regulated Learner” explains how students in this era lack the key principles of academic success such as goal setting, self motivation, time management, learning strategies and self attributions. A problems that most students have is the fact that they have unlimited access to electronics such as cell phones, television, computers, etc. Having the interment at the palm of their hands in school has made students able to look up all of the answers, not putting in any actual work. They don’t develop study habits because we have apps such as The Spanish Dictionary and Quizlet. Although these apps help. Students are practicing memorization skills which later, results in failing tests and quizzes. Zimmerman talks about self-regulation and how it helps students achieve success. Time-management and self-regulation are two key concepts in learning. As a student, time management is important because most people have to balance between a job, school and extracurricular activities. A student would have to plan out which day/hours they would be able to get their work done. Self-regulation and structure is important because schools give individuals so much work that they need to get done by a certain deadline and it could become stressful. This is where
In an idealistic world, one’s education would not be determined by their social class or living environment. Instead, those who live in the low class outskirts of an urban industrial population to those who live in ritzy suburban homes and are part of the private school system would be learning the same values and have similar if not equal curricula. However, we as a society have not managed to make this ideal applicable. Instead we find ourselves with an education system that seems to benefit those with favourable living conditions. As discussed in Anyon’s “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work”, depending on your economic status, you may be taught to just “Follow the steps in a procedure” as per the working class schools or how to independently carry out your creative activities as found in the affluent professional school. These very different extremes have an effect on one’s future by setting you up for a life as a factory worker or as a lawyer. It is this economical and social structure that I had to overcome to get to where I am today.
The benefits of education can never be stolen from you, but can help you grow and evolve. Aside from leading you to better job opportunities, education will also make you surround yourself with people that will push you to become your best self. Education is also the hope most blue-collar and poor minority have to improve their future and create a better one for their kids. It is also the key to a better and brighter mindset. I intend to discuss the significance of post-secondary education and summarize the arguments of authors and their points of view. I will also reflect on the importance of education and how it will fit into my future, for example attending a four-year university and getting my bachelor's degree to pursue my dream of becoming independent and having something that will lead me to a brighter future and mindset.
College drop outs have been glorified by society. The likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, and Mark Zuckerberg are highly patronized for their success. They are known for being successful people and they were able to achieve their success even if they did not get good grades in school, nor did they finish going to school. It can be said that they were not academic achievers. Nonetheless, the legacy of their success continues to prevail. They have reached the kind of success that everyone aspires to have. Often, their stories are used to encourage and convince people that doing well in school is no longer important to be successful.
Furthermore, we all have different reasons for getting an education or going to school, and we all have different experiences during this process. In my own definition? I say, education is a process of becoming enlightened to ignorant things that we don’t know around us. Most times we could be educated through people that have more knowledge than us. John F. Kennedy made a comment during his presidency
Education is what prepares you to what part of society you become. In Horace Mann’s “Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education” written in 1848, he tells of the importance of education, and the changes that need to happen in his era. Mann says that education “beyond all other devices of human origin is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery.” In education today, Jean Anyon shows how of education does not give equal opportunities for the reasons why to get an education, “By means of early education, these embryos of talent may be quickened, which will solve the difficult problems of political and economical law; and by them, too, the genius may be kindled which will blaze forth in the Poets of Humanity” (Mann). Ken Robinson shows the problems within The United States of America’s education system’s “No Child Left Behind” act. Modern American educational systems have not been as equalizers to all children citizens giving no equal opportunity, and no changes are planning to improve the education that leaves children behind.
Is an education a requirement for a successful career? Most people would say yes, however I think this is inaccurate, however I do think kindergarten through twelfth grade is important. Further education, such as college or a trade school, however, is not required to be successful. Just about all my family had not furthered their education with college and they’re all do just fine, making enough to live and support their families. Just because you go to college to be something doesn’t mean you will pursue your life in that career, most people don’t. Education is expensive and I don’t think that it is for everyone.
Can teachers read students work out loud and talk about students grades without their permission
A school is a system designed to provide a learning space for people under the influence of educational professionals. For centuries, education has played a major role in developing and changing the world. Therefore, children are obligated to go to school at a very young age to expose them to new skills, ideas, and knowledge. School is to provide the individual with the opportunity to further develop and learn their purpose in society. All around the world people are taught the same thing but feel unsatisfied and useless, are judged and labeled as a letter or number, yet for some people this system is beneficial for them.
As a general rule what makes a difference is not how intelligent one is, Education has nothing to do with insight except for how one utilizes the administrations and strengths, each individual is comprised of a twofold vision of themselves, a scaled down slower vision and an exceedingly quicker greater boundless vision through the their mind, numerous individuals pick the slower vision since it conveys with itself an assurance and transitory solace and smaller than usual fulfilment, which is the reason one can work for a long time at an organization and gets a month to month pay that equivalents a tyre of somebody who just has no testament or someone who was known as a slow learner at school, though in reality he used his bigger faster limitless vision.
Education is a very important tool you need to live a successful life, Those students who actually take advantage of the education given to them are usually the ones with the most success. The students who don’t take advantage of the education given to them are the ones working a minimum wage 9-5 job. With some students, the education they’re receiving isn’t enough, nowadays most students worry about their elective classes, sports, and after-school activities more than their common core classes. Which are Math, English, Science, and History. In order to increase student success at school all around Anaheim, students should spend more time in their common core classes, rather than spending the same amount of time in their elective classes.
When asking the question 'what is education? ' there can be many diverse and correct answers, this is down to the question being philosophical. To be able to find out what education is, understanding philosophy is can be vital. There are many different definitions of what philosophy is, according to oxford dictionary, they define philosophy as" it 's the use of reason in understanding such things as the nature of reality and existence, the use and limits of knowledge and the principles that govern and influence moral judgement" (Dictionary, 2016). The word philosophy is a geek word with the meaning of ' love of wisdom ', philosophers research meaning of concepts to clarify human nature and knowledge (Bates.J et al, 2009).